Industrial IoT should be easy, right?! Slap on some sensors, a gateway from one of the many CPU-in-a-ruggedized-box vendors, haul away all the data to your favorite cloud vendor’s “IoT platform" and voila - predictive powers abound! Talk to practitioners, however, and you might hear a different story. I bet, it is a story of overwhelming number of sensor vendors, myriad proprietary protocols, ill-equipped gateways, binder-thick cellular service bills, data-streams that cloud-hop endlessly and